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Front Page  Titles (by Subject) SCENE VII - Cato: A Tragedy and Selected Essays
SCENE VII - Joseph Addison, Cato: A Tragedy and Selected Essays [1710]Edition used:Cato: A Tragedy and Selected Essays, ed. by Christine Dunn Henderson and Mark E. Yellin, with a Foreword by Forrest McDonald (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2004).
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- Foreword
- Introduction
- The Life of Joseph Addison
- Addison the Essayist
- Cato, a Tragedy
- Editors’ Note
- Acknowledgments
- Cato: a Tragedy
- Prologue By Mr. Pope 2
- Dramatis Personae
- Act I —
- Scene I
- Scene Ii
- Scene Iii
- Scene Iv
- Scene V
- Scene Vi
- Act Ii —
- Scene I
- Scene Ii
- Scene Iii
- Scene Iv
- Scene V
- Scene Vi
- Act Iii —
- Scene I
- Scene Ii
- Scene Iii
- Scene Iv
- Scene V
- Scene Vi
- Scene Vii
- Act Iv —
- Scene I
- Scene Ii
- Scene Iii
- Scene Iv —
- Act V —
- Scene I
- Scene Ii
- Scene Iii
- Scene Iv
- Epilogue By Dr. Garth. 1
- Selected Essays
- Tatler, No. 161
- Tatler, No. 162
- Whig Examiner, No. 5
- Spectator, No. 55
- Spectator, No. 125
- Spectator, No. 169
- Spectator, No. 215
- Spectator, No. 219
- Spectator, No. 231
- Spectator, No. 237
- Spectator, No. 243
- Spectator, No. 255
- Spectator, No. 256
- Spectator, No. 257
- Spectator, No. 287
- Spectator, No. 293
- Spectator, No. 349
- Spectator, No. 446
- Spectator, No. 557
- Guardian, No. 99
- Guardian, No. 161
- Freeholder, No. 1
- Freeholder, No. 2
- Freeholder, No. 5
- Freeholder, No. 10
- Freeholder, No. 12
- Freeholder, No. 13 1
- Freeholder, No. 16
- Freeholder, No. 29
- Freeholder, No. 34
- Freeholder, No. 39
- Freeholder, No. 51
- The Life and Character of M. Cato of Utica [ ]
SCENE VII
Syphax, Sempronius.
Syphax
- Our first design, my friend, has proved abortive;
- Still there remains an after-game to play:
- My troops are mounted; their Numidian steeds
- Snuff up the wind, and long to scour the desert:
- Let but Sempronius head us in our flight,
- We’ll force the gate where Marcus keeps his guard,
- And hew down all that would oppose our passage.
- A day will bring us into Caesar’s camp.
Sempronius- Confusion! I have failed of half my purpose:
- Marcia, the charming Marcia’s left behind!
Syphax- How! will Sempronius turn a woman’s slave?
Sempronius
- Think not thy friend can ever feel the soft
- Unmanly warmth and tenderness of love.
- Syphax, I long to clasp that haughty maid,
- And bend her stubborn virtue to my passion:
- When I have gone thus far, I’d cast her off.
Syphax- Well said! that’s spoken like thyself, Sempronius.
- What hinders then, but that thou find her out,
- And hurry her away by manly force?
Sempronius
- But how to gain admission? for access
- Is given to none but Juba and her brothers.
Syphax- Thou shalt have Juba’s dress and Juba’s guards.
- The doors will open, when Numidia’s prince
- Seems to appear before the slaves that watch them.
Sempronius
- Heavens, what a thought is there! Marcia’s my own!
- How will my bosom swell with anxious joy,
- When I behold her struggling in my arms,
- With glowing beauty and disordered charms,
- While fear and anger, with alternate grace,
- Pant in her breast, and vary in her face!
- So Pluto, seized of Proserpine, conveyed
- To hell’s tremendous gloom the affrighted maid,
- There grimly smiled, pleased with the beauteous prize,
- Nor envied Jove his sunshine and his skies.
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